Communist Party of Argentina

The Communist Party of Argentina is a Marxist-Leninist communist political party in Argentina that was founded in 1918. The party split from the Socialist Party of Argentina in response to the 1917 October Revolution, and the socialists would accuse the Communists of fighting for the geopolitical interests of the Soviet Union rather than focusing on a communist revolution in Argentina. The party sent fighters and supplies to the Spanish Second Republic's International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and opposed Peronism during Juan Peron's dictatorship, but it refused to take part in the armed guerrilla struggle against the government during the Dirty War and did not denounce the 1976 right-wing military coup. The party would become more of a movement than a party during the 21st century, boasting 22,930 members in 2012 but no seats in any branch of the government.